This article is a discussion of Ewa Domańska's and Hayden White's views on the usefulness of history against the background of similiar views of contemporary modernist and postmodernist theoreticians of history. This analysis is based on two books: Ewa Domańska's Mikrohistorie. Spotkania w międzyswiatach, and Hayden White's Poetyka pisarstwa historycznego, a collection of Hyden White's studies edited by Domańska.

In this analysis of 'Zarys historii historiografii polskiej ('An Outline History of Polish Historiography') by Andrzej F. Grabski, the Author stresses the ideological dimensions of historiography and the relation between historical knowledge and political power. If modem academic history can be viewed as the ideological support of the nation-state, then the study of Polish historiography can serve as a useful introduction to the history of Poland itself. This is so, because the history of the nation cannot be separated from the different representations of it.

The article is a review essay of a collection of proceedings from a conference devoted to the role and place of archeology in contemporary human sciences. These proceedings were published by Poznań University in 1997 under the title Jakiej archeologii potrzebuje współczesna humanistyka?

The article deals with the debate on the origins of the primary religion that took place in Polish human sciences after the Second World War. The Author analyses the conceptual structure of texts which constituted the debate.

The article discusses some general problems involved in cooperation between history and psychology, and presents three types of these relationships currently functioning in the filed.

The aim of this article is to give a brief overview of the reorientation of Polish historiography at the end of 19th and the beginning of 20th centuries. The writings of Feliks Koneczny are analysed as a case study in this context.

The article presents the history of private life as a new trend in historical research initiated by Philipe Aries and taken up by historians connected with anthropological history. The Author focuses on the problem of privacy as a concept occuring in the fields of sociology and psychology and tries to determine the domain of the history of private life. Special stress is put on the differences between the discussed branch of history and the history of everyday life.

The article presents the origins and development of American behavioural political science, as well as the major aspects of behavioural approach to political science. Political behaviouralism is analysed against the background of Kuhn's and Popper's concepts of the development of science. Furthermore, the results of the implementation of behavioural ideas in political science are presented and discussed.

The Author presents contemporary Italian views on the theory and history of federalism and regionalism. In particular the concepts of an Italian historian of legal and political thought - Gianfranco Miglio - have been stressed.

Author confronts various problems the historian of mentality has to deal with, basing on the last decade publications by Polish scientists.

The article discusses the theoretical aspects of works by an outstanding Polish historian - Andrzej Feliks Grabski, who died in 2000.

The article deals with the situation of history in the contemporary world. The most recent trends in the research of the history are discussed. According to the present knowledge historiography is perceived as a kind of art. In the current article the Author proposes a new role for history in human life.

The article presents Michel Foucault as a scholar, who is considered a heretic by traditional historians. The Author presents three ways in which we can capture Foucault's characteristic way of thinking and writing of history: questioning the traditional way of writing history based on linearity, totality and individual consciousness; offering new subject to be investigated by historians (the history of truth, relation between power and knowledge) and stressing the historical nature of a human being.

The article is a polemics with some traditional concepts of theories of a historical source. The Author of the article takes Marek Henrykowski's assumption of a film being a historical source as a departing point for his own vision of a metaphor of a source and further discussion with some of Hendrykowski's concepts.

In the present article the Author analyses the changes in historiography in Communist Poland after the Second World War.

The article touches upon the problem of scientific catastrophy as a phenomenon interesting both for historians and sociologists. The Author presents a case study investigating works of a Russian writer Wiktor Suworow.